Institutional Web Management Workshop

This page provides details of the "Providing Information To Third Parties" workshop session facilitated by Brian Kelly at the Institutional Web Management: 2001 workshop held at Queen's University Belfast on 25-27 June 2001.

Abstract

Institutional Web managers are receiving an increasing number of request to provide information to third parties. These may include organisations which are part of the Higher and Further Education communities, such as UCAS, HERO, HESA, etc. as well as commercial companies. This session will address the issues concerning the provision of information to third parties, including whether this should be done, and approaches to providing information to third parties. The HERO portal will be used as a case study.

Session Aims

By the end of the session delegates will:

Be aware of the demand for information from your institution from third parties.
Be aware of the pros and cons of providing information to third parties.
Be informed of the approaches to providing information to the HERO portal.
Be in a position to draft an institutional policy on requests for information from third parties.

Draft Timetable

The following timetable is subject to change.

Time	Topic	Comments
16:00	Introduction	Session aims, introduction from facilitator
16:05	Who Wants Our Information?	Small group exercise in which participants list organisations which may request information from Universities.
16:20	Who Wants Our Information?	Report back and presentation.
16:35	The Pros and Cons	Small group exercise in which participants list the pros and cons of providing information to third parties.
17:00	HERO - A Case Study	A demonstration of the HERO portal.
17:10	Formulating a Policy	Small group exercise in which participants formulate an institutional policy on providing information to third parties.
17:25	Conclusions	Workshop Conclusions

URLs Used in Exercises

The following URLs are used in the exercises:

Exercise C2-2

leeds-university.co.uk Web site at http://www.leeds-university.co.uk/
999angliapolytechnicuniversity.com Web site at http://www.999angliapolytechnicuniversity.com/
university-link.com Web site at http://www.university-link.com/

Exercise C2-3

Message on policies sent to website-info-mgt JISCMail list at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0102&L=website-info-mgt&O=A&P=8572

Materials

Slides 1: Introduction (presentation): [HTML format] - [PowerPoint 97/2000 format]
Exercise 1: Session Aims: [HTML format] - [MS Word 97/2000 format]
Slides 2: Who Wants Our Information? (presentation): [HTML format] - [PowerPoint 97/2000 format]
Slides 3: The Pros and Cons of Providing Information to Third Parties? (presentation): [HTML format] - [PowerPoint 97/2000 format]
Exercise 2: Is All Publicity Good?: [HTML format] - [MS Word 97/2000 format]
Exercise 3: A Policy On The Provision Of Information To Third Parties: [HTML format] - [MS Word 97/2000 format]
Slides 4: Architectures (presentation): [HTML format] - [PowerPoint 97/2000 format]
Slides 5: Conclusions (presentation): [HTML format] - [PowerPoint 97/2000 format]

Slides: Report Back: Report back slides: [HTML format] - [Powerpoint format]

"Institutional Web Management 2001" Workshop